CONTACT INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
4:30- 6:30 p.m.
Pick Hall, Room 506
5828 South University Avenue
Morgan Kaplan
E-MAIL mlkaplan@uchicago.edu
PISP Workshop Archive
2012-2013 Workshops
| October 9 | M.J. Reese (University of Chicago) "Bargaining with Goliath: Credible Cost-Tolerance, Aversionary Political Incentives and the Violent Escalation of Asymmetric Crises" |
| October 16 | John Stevenson (University of Chicago) "Capitol Gains from Cuba to Kosovo: A Rational Theory of Mass Killing with some Evidence" |
| October 23 | Severine Autesserre (Barnard College, Columbia University) "Peaceland – An Ethnography of International Intervention" |
| October 30 | Virginia Page Fortna (Columbia University) "Do Terrorists Win? Rebels’ Use of Terrorism and Civil War Outcomes" |
| November 6 | Llewelyn Hughes (George Washington University) "The Effect of Structural Changes in the International Oil Market on National Security" |
| November 13 | Barnard Choi (University of Chicago) "Intentions in International Relations Theory" |
| November 27 | Michael Rosol (University of Chicago; United States Military Academy at West Point) "Conventional Militaries in Unconventional Wars: Adaptation and Innovation at the Campaign Plan Level" |
| December 4 | Laia Balcells (Duke University) "Does Warfare Matter? Severity, Duration, and Outcomes of Civil Wars" |
| December 11 | D.J. Kim (University of Chicago) "Letting a Hegemonic Aspirant (further) Rise? Maintenance and Revision of Economic Ties between Incumbent Great Power and Rising Challenger" |
| January 15 | Kathryn Lindquist (University of Chicago) "Taking it Off the Table: The Case Against Non-Military Interventions in High-Casualty Conflicts" |
| January 22 | Stephanie Kelley (University of Chicago) "Whether to Repress or Disobey? Military Decisions in Times of Popular Unrest" |
| January 29 | Kevin Weng (University of Chicago) "Branching Policies: An Examination of U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force Preferences for Intervention in International Crises" |
| February 5 | Eugene Gerzhoy (University of Chicago) "Why Do Leaders Abandon Nuclear Weapons Activities? Superpower Inducements, Leverage, and Nuclear Non-proliferation" |
| February 12 | Ashley Tellis (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) "Indian Objectives in Missile Defense" |
| February 19 | Stephen Biddle (George Washington University) "How Do Nonstate Actors Fight? Explaining the Military Choices of Guerillas, Warlords, Militias and Mercenaries" |
| February 26 | Robert Valentine (University of Chicago) "Glory, Honor, and Other Inconvenient Pursuits in International Politics" |
| March 5 | Taylor Fravel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Active Defense: Explaining the Evolution of China's Military Strategy" |
| March 12 | Matthew Fuhrmann (Texas A&M University) "Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy" |
2011-2012 Workshops
| October 4 | Ron Hassner (University of California, Berkeley) "Religious Intelligence" |
| October 11 | Morgan Kaplan (University of Chicago) "Calculated Aggression: Inter-Factional Competition and Strategies of Violence and Restraint in Civil War" |
| October 18 | Roger Petersen (MIT) "Social Science and Military Intervention in the 21st Century" |
| October 25 | Jessica Weiss (Yale University) "Bargaining with Fire: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations" |
| November 1 | Robert Trager (University of California, Los Angeles) "How States Form Beliefs about Intention: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Confidential Print of the British Empire, 1860-1914" |
| November 8 | David Benson (University of Chicago) "Thinking Systematically about Transnational Terrorism on the Internet" |
| November 15 | John Mueller (Ohio State University) "Dueling Absurdities: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in the U.S." |
| November 29 | Shawn Cochran (University of Chicago) "War Termination as a Problem of Civil-Military Relations (Redux)" |
| January 10 | Valerie Morkevicius (Colgate University) "Power and Order: The Shared Logics of Realism and Just War Thought" |
| January 17 | Lindsey O'Rourke (University of Chicago) "Why do States Conduct Covert Regime Change?" |
| January 24 | Caitlin Talmadge (George Washington University) |
| January 31 | Keren Yarhi-Milo (Princeton University) "Leaders, Intelligence and Assessments of Intentions in International Relations" |
| February 7 | Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth College) "The Strategic Logic of Resource Nationalism" |
| February 14 | Michael Ross (University of California, Los Angeles) "Oil-based Violence" |
| February 21 | Matthew Kroenig (Georgetown University) "Nuclear Superiority and the Balance of Resolve: Explaining Nuclear Crisis Outcomes" |
| February 28 | Jenna Jordan (University of Chicago) "Why Decapitating al Qaeda Won't Work" |
| March 6 | Yasemin Bilgel (University of Chicago) "Going Their Way: Regional Powers under Unipolarity" |
| April 10 | Sebastian Schmidt (University of Chicago) "Explaining Normative Change in International Politics: Foreign Military Presence and the Changing Practice of Sovereignty" |
| April 17 | Chad Levinson (University of Chicago) "Moral Subsidy: The Role of Interest Groups in U.S. Foreign Policy" |
| April 24 | Eric Hundman (University of Chicago) "Social Structure and Military Violence: Decision Making during Colonial Wars in the late Qing" |
| May 3 | Stephen Krasner (Stanford University) "External Actors and the Provision of Collective Goods in Areas of Limited Statehood" |
| May 8 | Jacob Schapiro (Princeton University) "Understanding Support for Militancy in Pakistan" |
| May 15 | Alex Weisiger (University of Pennsylvania) "The Elusive Warmongers: Contrasting Unitary-Actor and Domestic-Political Explanations for War" |
| May 22 | Phil Haun (Naval War College) "Why the Weak Resist: State Survival as a Rationalist Explanation for Coercion Failure in Asymmetric Interstate Conflict" |
| May 29 | risa brooks (Marquette University) "Civil-military Relations and the Arab Revolts of 2011: Explaining Variation in the Responses of Arab Militaries to Popular Protest" |
| June 5 | Stephen Brooks (Dartmouth University) "Pretty Prudent Partisan Theory of U.S. Foreign Policy Opinion" |
